A special Southern Christian Lady and retired Jackon County banker, Mrs. Gerry (Mee-Maw) Anderson, age 93 of the Granville Community, departed her earthly journey with her family at her bedside at 12:46 p.m. Friday afternoon May 2, 2025 at the Highpoint Health -Sumner Medical Center in Gallatin where she was admitted April 30th.
Roy Johnson, longtime minister at the Liberty Church of Christ in the Liberty Community, will officiate the 3 p.m. Monday afternoon May 5th graveside services which are to held at the John L. Clark Cemetery in the Stone Community near Gainesboro. Burial will follow beside her husband.
The Anderson family will receive friends at Sanderson in Carthage on Sunday from 1 p.m. until 6 p.m. and again on Monday at the John L. Clark Cemetery following the 3 p.m. graveside service. Friends will assemble at the cemetery for the service.
She was one of six children, three daughters and three sons, of the late Benton McMillian “B. M.” Halfacre who died at the age of 84 on December 6, 1986 and Dora Mai Carter Halfacre who died at the age of 97 on November 21, 2000 and was born Evelyn Geraldine Halfacre in the Martins Creek Community of Jackson County on July 23, 1931.
Siblings preceding her in death were Lawrence Taylor Halfacre who died at 10 days of age on February 27, 1921, Everett O. “Ebb” Halfacre who died December 28, 1990 at the age of 62, Ina Pauline Halfacre Brown who died March 6, 2012 at the age of 89 and E. Lloyd Halfacre who died Marh 8, 2012 at the age of 86.
Her first two years of high school were at the Granville High School before transferring to Jackson County Central High School in 1948 to complete her education and graduating there in 1949. She made quite an impact upon her arrival, taking F. H. A. classes and being in the Beta Club, and the Pep Squad, all in the ’48 &’49 school year. In ‘48 alone was Beta Club reporter, attendant to the Beta Club queen, class treasurer, and in “49 was in the Beta Club play, attendant to the football queen, class reporter and on the annual staff of “The Hickory” annual.
A great compliment was paid to her in the ’49 edition of “The Hickory” her senior year. It stated; “Gentle in her manner; she does bold things in a quiet way.” She was also one of the top ten students in her class.
She was united in marriage on December 24, 1949 in Kentucky to Gainesboro native, Jack Roy Anderson, who preceded her in death from a sudden heart attack on January 1, 1990 at the age of 59 following forty-one years of marriage.
Mrs. Anderson was a thirty-year employee of the former Jackson County Bank, retiring in 1998 and ten of her tenured years with the bank she served as the manager of the Granville Branch of the Jackson County Bank.
Baptized into Christ at the age of 12, she was a lifelong member of the Liberty Church of Christ, where she drove to and from services last Sunday April 27th.
Surviving is her daughter, Judith Apple and husband Jimmy of the Chestnut Mound, Community; three grandchildren, Smith County High School educator, Denise Hackett and husband, Carthage pharmacist, Michael Hackett of Hartsville, Smith County High School principal, Scott Apple and wife Barbie of the Chestnut Mound Community, Gordonsville Family Nurse Practitioner, Kim Gregory and husband Steven of the Graveltown Community; seven grandchildren, Seth Hackett and wife Rachel of Hartsville, Brittany Prince and husband Jim of Fort Walton Beach, Florida, Alexandra Hackett of Hartsville and fiancée Tyler Prevec of Gordonsville, Maggie Jo Apple of the Chestnut Mound Community and fiancée Levi Halliburton, Owen Gregory, and Delaney Gregory both of the Graveltown Community, Marshall Apple of the Chestnut Mound Community; two great-grandchildren, Eleanor Prince and one to be born in June, Beau Anderson Hackett, one surviving sister, Leota Faye Halfacre Moore of Atlanta, Georgia.
The family requests memorial to the Jordan Hackett Foundation.
Pallbearers: Scott & Marshall Apple, Seth Hackett, Owen Gregory, Tyler Prevec, Steven Gregory
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